Special Combination Set combining two of Smoky's most popular writer's workshops, including the basics and more of becoming a published author and a year's worth of fun and educational prompts and lessons.
Front-word, Back-word, Insight-Out: Lessons on Writing the Novel Lurking Inside You From Start to Finish
and
Left Brained, Write Brained: 366 Writing Prompts and Exercises to Free Your Creative Spirit, Awaken Your Muse, and Challenge Your Skills Every Day of the Year
by Smoky Trudeau Zeidel
Acknowledgements
Thanks to all the students of the Fiction Writer’s Workshop at Parkland Community College and Heartland Community College for making teaching such a pleasurable experience. Certain students in particular—Jack Houser, Robert Hays, and others too numerous to name—made my job particularly rewarding.Thanks also to Kimberlee Williams of Vanilla Heart Publishing for encouraging me to put my workshop in book form from which other aspiring writers can learn my methods.
BOOK ONE
Front-word, Back-word, Insight-Out: Lessons on Writing the Novel Lurking Inside You From Start to Finish
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Front-Word Chapter One: Getting Started Chapter Two: Characterization Chapter Three: Setting Chapter Four: Point of View Chapter Five: Dialogue Chapter Six: Plot Development Chapter Seven: The End Chapter Eight: Fallow Times: Dealing with Writer’s Block Chapter Nine: Revision Chapter Ten: Submitting Your Work Chapter Eleven: Really Stupid Things Authors do to Screw Themselves Back-Word Endnotes Recommended Reading
BOOK TWO
Left Brained, Write Brained: 366 Writing Prompts and Exercises to Free Your Creative Spirit, Awaken Your Muse, and Challenge Your Skills Every Day of the Year
Smoky Trudeau Zeidel is the author of novels, short stories, and two nonfiction books especially for writers: Front-Word, Back-Word,Insight Out: Lessons on Writing the Novel Lurking Inside You From Start to Finish; and Left Brained, Write Brained: 366 Writing Prompts and Exercises to Free Your Creative Spirit, Awaken Your Muse, And Challenge Your Skills Every Day of the Year, all from Vanilla Heart Publishing. She has published short stories and poetry in literary journals such as CALYX and online e-zines such as The Foundling Review, and was a 2003 Pushcart Prize nominee.
An ardent outdoorswoman with a deep reverence for nature, Smoky’s Observations of an Earth Mage is a collection of prose and poetry celebrating the fragile beauty of our planet. She was the lead editor for Vanilla Heart Publishing’s 2010 Nature’s Gifts anthology.
Finally succumbing to her bohemian spirit and need to live near the mountains and the ocean, Smoky moved to Southern California in 2008, where she lives with her husband and daughter in a ramshackle cottage in the woods overlooking the San Gabriel Valley and the San Gabriel Mountains beyond. When she isn’t writing, she spends her time hiking in the mountains, camping in the Sierras,splashing in tidepools, and fighting the urge to speak in haiku.
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